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Writings by the imprisoned Chinese political activist are granted a place "among the classics of the 20 th century literature of dissent, alongside the writings of figures like Vaclav Havel, Vladmir Bukovsky and Adam Michnik" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). The collection mainly consists of letters, written from prison to Chinese leaders, pleading the case for democracy.
Michnik forged the worker-intellectual-church alliance that peacefully overturned Poland's Communist regime.
Perhaps, Berman speculates, Havel and Michnik represent the true legacy of the worldwide revolutionary sprouting of 1968.
Adam Michnik was arrested in a demonstration in Warsaw in February of 1968, went on to become the leading theorist of the Solidarity protest movement of the 1980s, and survived to take up a role as middle-aged statesman in the Polish political world that succeeded the collapse of communism in 1989.
As the "conscience of the new Poland" and the editor of a successful newspaper, Michnik rationalizes economic growing pains as "the inevitable cost of joining the West" and advocates reconciliation with former Communists.